We are truck wreck lawyers. Call us if you have been the victim of
a truck collision, big-rig accident, tractor-trailer collision,
automobile accident, car wreck or if a loved one has suffered
a wrongful
death or serious injury. Whatever legal problem you may have,
our Dallas,
Texas truck wreck
attorneys want to help you. You can see us for free. Please
call us now. You may be entitled to
compensation for your injuries.
A serious truck wreck requires a serious truck wreck lawyer.
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attorney.
Truck Negligence and Accident Claims
The U.S. Department of Transportation and Texas DOT have stringent
laws regarding truck negligence. Truck negligence is the major
contributing factor in fatalities in truck and automobile
accidents nationwide. The number of crashes involving light
trucks and passenger cars is increasing. Transportation law,
for example, limits professional driving hours.
Almost 5,000 large trucks were involved in fatal crashes in
1997. While 717 occupants of large trucks died in these crashes,
4,638 other people were killed in the collisions (USDOT NHTSA 1998c).
The highest fatality rates in the United States for roadway
accidents are for motorcycle riders.
The
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) sponsored
a study that concluded approximately twice as many car drivers
would die in collisions with light trucks than in similar
collisions involving cars of the same weight as the light
truck. For the same reasons, occupants of passenger cars and
light trucks have much higher fatality rates than occupants
of large trucks and buses.
Examples
of truck negligence generally fall into two categories: driver
error and vehicle maintenance failure. The most common cause
of driver error is fatigue, which can cause clouded judgment, drowsiness,
and falling asleep at the wheel. Driver error can also be due
to inexperience, improper driver training and driving under
the influence of alcohol or drugs (whether prescription
or illegal). Deregulation of the
trucking industry has resulted in an increase in speed-limit
violations among tractor-trailer drivers.
The
negligence of improper truck maintenance is most frequently
tire or brake related. Almost half of dispatched emergency
roadside assistance calls are tire related. Sadly, road failures
are sometimes a dollar and cents gamble with your life by
trucking companies. It can cost more than $100 per hour to have
a truck out of service -- not counting losses related to equipment
utilization, the cost of the service call and the subsequent
customer dissatisfaction.
Not
all freeway ramps or traffic patterns are engineered for trucking
safety. Not all road and weather conditions are optimal for
driving safely. Not all cargo is benign -- hazardous materials (HAZMAT) increase the driving stress in industrial and professional
truck shipping. Professional drivers, commonly
known as "truckers", must be constantly aware
of road conditions as well as the load that they carry. Truck
negligence leads to accidents causing injury, pain, property
damage and -- too frequently -- death.
Texas truck accident law, also referred to as Texas
automobile accident law, Texas car wreck, Texas car
wrecks, Texas auto accident, Texas automobile collision,
Texas automobile collisions, Texas auto collision, Texas
auto collisions, Texas motorcycle accidents, Texas train
wrecks, and Texas truck wrecks is a complicated legal
system and is difficult for anyone to understand. Our
Texas auto accident lawyers and Texas auto accident
attorneys can help you if you have been injured in a car
wreck anywhere in Texas, including Dallas, Fort Worth,
Arlington, Garland,
Irving, Mesquite, Richardson, Plano, Carrollton,
Duncanville, DeSoto, Lancaster, Oak Cliff, Dallas
County, Tarrant County, Collin County, Denton County,
Houston, Austin, San Antonio, Abilene, Amarillo,
Beaumont, Brownsville, Corpus Christi, El Paso, Laredo,
Lubbock, Midland, Odessa, Texarkana, Tyler, Waco,
Wichita Falls or any other city in Texas. There is no
charge to contact our Texas auto accident lawyers or
Texas car wrecks attorneys for a free evaluation of your
auto accident injury claim.
Kraft & Associates, P.C.
maintains offices in Dallas, Texas. We serve all areas of North Texas,
including Dallas County, Tarrant County, Denton County and the cities of
Dallas, Fort Worth, Arlington, Irving, Grand Prairie, Garland, Mesquite,
Richardson, Plano, Frisco, Carrollton, Farmers Branch, Lewisville, Hurst,
Euless, Bedford, Grapevine, Coppell, Colleyville, Duncanville, DeSoto,
Cedar Hill, Lancaster and Rockwall. We also accept cases throughout Texas,
including
Houston, Austin, San Antonio, Tyler, El Paso, Waco, Lubbock, Amarillo,
Corpus Christi, Brownsville, Beaumont, Abilene, Wichita Falls, Laredo,
Midland, Odessa, Texarkana or any other city in Texas.
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